The Radical and Moving True Story Behind FX’s Dying for Sex

A dying cancer patient having as much kinky sex as she can is the premise of FX’s Dying for Sex—and also based on a true story.

Michelle Williams plays Molly Kochan, who died in 2019 at the age of 45 from metastatic breast cancer. Kochan co-created the podcast Dying for Sex in 2020 with her best friend, Nikki Boyer, about how being diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer pushed her to change everything about her life. When she learned that her cancer was incurable, Kochan left her unhappy...